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Customized Online Professional Development Programs focused on Advancing Critical Thinking in Education and Society

The Foundation for Critical Thinking now offers customized online professional development programs for our global community. These online programs augment our annual International Conference and other on-site academies and professional development opportunities. All online learning opportunities in our academy focus on advancing foundations of critical thinking and helping faculty and students contextualize these foundations in the important domains of human life – in teaching and learning, and in professional and personal life.

An essential feature of our online professional development programs is that they include routine, real-time online Socratic workshops in which our Fellows and Scholars engage participants in a way that mirrors our brick-and-mortar classroom design. In our customized programs, all participants are asked to join the class meetings by both audio and video connection through their computers.

(Once registered for a given workshop, directions are provided to attendees through email, which enable them to connect on the day of the online workshop with their computers - which must utilize a webcam.) Through this audio/video process, all participants will be able to see and converse with our presenter directly throughout all of the online workshops. Our online workshops are therefore interactive and inclusive. And they offer opportunities, throughout, for faculty to contextualize fundamental critical thinking ideas in their courses - or for administrators and leaders to contextualize these essential ideas within professional work settings. Knowledge gained in each of our online workshops builds upon in all previous online workshops taken in our online professional development programs.

All of our online workshops and professional development programs are led by Fellows and Scholars of the Foundation for Critical Thinking. Read about our presenters.

To learn more about our customized online professional development programs, contact Ms. Rachael Collins, Executive Assistant to the President and Professional Development Coordinator. Ms. Collins can be reached at collins@criticalthinking.org, or by phone at 1-800-833-3645, extension 12.